Dear iKNOW reader, Combine endogenous and exogenous ideas through internal or external paths to market to develop advances in services, products or processes are the main objectives of organizations when they implement an open innovation (OI) strategy. Since Chesbrough’s fi rst description, the number of companies who have adopted OI has experienced a tremendous growth. […]
Creative leaders expect to make deeper business model changes to realize their strategies. To succeed, they take more calculated risks, find new ideas, and keep innovating in how they lead and communicate. Thus, embodying creative leadership, reinventing customer relationships, engaging customers as individuals, building operating dexterity, empowering employees through values, amplifying innovation through partnerships, unlocking creative and transversal idea generation through communityship within […]
Competitive advantage through Knowledge and Innovation Since the early 1990’s, the importance of Knowledge Management (KM) and Innovation Management (IM) to create an organization’s competitive advantage has been widely recognized worldwide in the government, public and private sectors. KM and IM are interdisciplinary and complex areas of study by integrating technology centered and human centered approaches from the perspective of system […]
Download the Flier Slides + Research publication (Crafting organizational innovation processes) By Dr. Kevin Desouza Two universal truths underpin most business operations: (1) unless businesses can demonstrate value to their stakeholders on a constant basis they will lose customers and markets and get overrun by the competition, and (2) to generate business value, an organization must constantly innovate, […]
From Knowledge to Innovation Introduction by Dr. Vincent Ribiere Download slides Related links presented: The OECD Innovation strategy BCG Report Innovation 2010 The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 Internal Knowledge Markets by Dr. Hind Benbya is an Associate Professor of Information Technology Management at GSCM-Montpellier Business School, France. Download paper:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1652432 Internal markets can improve knowledge […]
We would like to invite you to join our next IKI-SEA seminar on Tuesday December 22nd titled “What is your Intellectual Property Worth?” Four distinguished speakers from different fields will share their experience on identifying, valuing, leveraging and protecting intellectual assets, the key to competition in a knowledge/creative economy.Download the full program 12:30-13:00 Registration and Seating […]